The first two are on the production line so we should get in quick we have a radar already.So it not a major cost. Serious question to any knowledgeable person out there - Do we still have those two spare radars or did we flog them off on the cheap? Thanks, Freeman A smart move would have to be kee...

I suspect (Presumably) that Congress will most likely block the decision, like attempts to retire older non combat coded F-22s and the Older F-15Es.... I guess we wait and see...

UK Serials lists the following that were at Warton as either a GI or for RTP as scrapped

ZJ921
ZJ929
ZJ935
ZJ939

ZJ922 also listed as scrapped, this was moved by road to Warton and wfu by February 2019

Just seen this. Clearest indication of F-35A consideration for the RAF we’ve had… https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/uk-confirms-aim-to-buy-f-35a-for-nato-nuclear-strike-role/?fbclid=IwY2xjawKz9HlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHq_ITkmcXE310XMCEuh0EH-QWIhnuHA1x5Y4iazavH4VqWThRukikZ_ZUjmm_aem_hmzFNEC4Eq86aaGm3uJ2NQ S...

And to think one little irritating clown, aka Darth Putin and his cronies has B@@@ered t all up....

Does Upper Heyford still just have lots of cars stored on site but with all its hadware still there? RN. I doubt it still belongs to the MoD for starters. And then they abandoned the idea of using Bentwaters and Woodbridge in the early 1990s after the USAF left. IIRC the Harriers from Germany and o...

Presume they are empty, although I have been there since 1992...

Ah Yes Honington forgot about that...

I suspect you might find the Lightning Force is more ready for dealing with deployments and also potential aggressors (whoever) that maybe than doing a display. But feel free to write to the Lightning Force Commander and tell them.

The first thing is to get the RAF training program back on track.We can not expect to train fast jet pilots overseas .Because any spare capasity will be take up by the home airforces doing what we are try to increase aircrew numbers quickly. Then reopen any UK military airfield with a long runway a...

Yes it was always planned along with the now cancelled Rafale display later at 4pm Let's just hope that the power's that be see sense and get it primed for a role demo and not just a flypast :thumbs: after all there's some slots that need filling. . . . I suspect they are far too busy with time to ...

Given the weather at the minute here in the SW, that may not be happening today....

Black Cats on the way, passed by me while at sisters in Bristol about 25 mins ago

Great shots Paul

Surely stand off weapons are better than free fall so the jets don’t actually have to overfly heavily defended targets? What the UK needs most in my opinion is thousands of armed drones and ground based anti drone and anti missile defences. Possibly at least two or three more squadrons of ‘off the ...

I think you'll find it's everything to do with politics. The F-16s, A-10s that still fly in the US and the ex USAF F-4s which are still flying in Turkey and Greece you mean? Nothing to do with the age of the aircraft. Germans and Italians still flying Tornadoes years after the RAF retired them, whe...

Correct. They had used up pretty much all their remaining Fatigue Index

As for the Jaguars they retired them 6 months early a year later. Feel free to tell us when the Greeks are retiring their F-4s as both they and Turkey are trying to keep the remain ones going. Oh and I believe it was the original Greek and Turkish F-4s that were updated, not any of the Surplus ANG a...

You think what you like I don't care. Now run along the worms will get you in the end

I suppose we can but hope Orange Man orders more F-15EXs.

As I saw something the other day (memory loss means I know not where) That someone in the USAF was warming to the idea of an F-16 Block 80....